Ilana Estelle is a mental health and wellbeing advocate who combines educational insight with her personal experience of living with physical, mental, and emotional disabilities.
She holds diplomas in Counselling, Diet and Nutrition, Nutritional Therapy, Psychotherapy and Counselling, and Stress Management. Through her writing, Ilana supports others in navigating their emotional, mental, and physical health challenges.
In addition to writing for The CP Diary, her work has appeared in healthy lifestyle magazines.
Ilana is also the author of three books: Cerebral Palsy: A Story – Finding the Calm After the Storm, Spirituality, Healing and Me, and Survival: The Covid Years – Time for Change.
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Thanks Tim. I think it will, primarily because we're all looking and will choose to interpret situations differently.
It is in times of stress that we may need support and for others who need support potentially more than we do.
Looking at the world situation now, I think if Covid-19 teaches us one thing, it's that we must work together for the greater good. You can also put global warming into that mix.
It shouldn't have to take 'a few more lifetimes to get it right.' We can get it right now, as long as we learn to pull together and work towards a common goal and cause.
Yes, my life has always been such a question and it's only been the past couple of years, where I feel like I have been living in the answer.
It feels totally amazing to be living my life the way I have always wanted to. I'm feeling pretty great right now, in spite of the pandemic and all.
There are truly so many challenges right now that most people are ill equipped to handle, but considering what my childhood was like, I'm doing better than most.
Hopefully I can keep up the momentum and do some of the things that I have always wanted to do.
Thanks Randy. Yes, that's good. You have come such a long way.
Whilst we cannot change the past, we can change certain aspects of our present so that our future plays out differently.
Throughout your childhood you were being shown lessons for you to make changes. Those lessons are not always the lessons we want, but often the lessons we get.
The question and the answer are linked, and looking at them in different ways is how we solve many of life's challenges.
It may take me a few more lifetimes to get it right.
Thanks Tim. I think it will, primarily because we're all looking and will choose to interpret situations differently.
It is in times of stress that we may need support and for others who need support potentially more than we do.
Looking at the world situation now, I think if Covid-19 teaches us one thing, it's that we must work together for the greater good. You can also put global warming into that mix.
It shouldn't have to take 'a few more lifetimes to get it right.' We can get it right now, as long as we learn to pull together and work towards a common goal and cause.
Yes, my life has always been such a question and it's only been the past couple of years, where I feel like I have been living in the answer.
It feels totally amazing to be living my life the way I have always wanted to. I'm feeling pretty great right now, in spite of the pandemic and all.
There are truly so many challenges right now that most people are ill equipped to handle, but considering what my childhood was like, I'm doing better than most.
Hopefully I can keep up the momentum and do some of the things that I have always wanted to do.
Thanks Randy. Yes, that's good. You have come such a long way.
Whilst we cannot change the past, we can change certain aspects of our present so that our future plays out differently.
Throughout your childhood you were being shown lessons for you to make changes. Those lessons are not always the lessons we want, but often the lessons we get.
I believe you can keep the momentum up.